|  Ernest
J. Walters, Jr. Lecture Series in Political Thought
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Terry Walters, Professor Leon Kass and Amy Walters |
Leon
R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D.
“For
Love of the Game: Biotechnology and Adulteration of American Sport”
Wednesday,
March 4, 2009, 8 p.m.
Watkins Room, University Center
Leon
R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D., is the Addie Clark Harding Professor
in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University
of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise
Institute. He was chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics
from 2002 to 2005. He has written widely on the moral questions
raised by modern science, including his 1984 book Toward a More
Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs and in (2002), Life,
Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity. His latest book, The Beginning
of Wisdom, is a commentary on the Book of Genesis.
The
Tocqueville Program at Furman University brings prominent
scholars and public intellectuals to campus with the aim of encouraging
serious and open engagement with moral questions at the heart of
political life. The program seeks to contribute to the development
of thoughtful citizens by exploring the norms, truths, and values
that inform our understanding of politics.
The program
takes it name from Alexis de Tocqueville, perhaps the greatest student
of modern democracy, who understood both the difficulty and the
necessity of reminding citizens of a decent and prosperous regime
about questions of truth, nobility and eternity. These questions
are not always comfortable to discuss and are never easily resolved;
but, as Tocqueville understood, they are questions which cannot
be ignored by human beings who seek to live lives of freedom and
dignity.
Professor Leon Kass and Dr. Ben Story, Asst Professor of Political
Science at Furman |
Students, faculty and community members attended the address |
Leon Kass |
Leon Kass |
Leon Kass |
Leon Kass |
Leon Kass with Dr. Ty Tessitore, Professor of Political Science
at Furman and other guests |
Leon Kass with a Furman student |
Leon Kass with guests |
Dr. Ty Tessitore, Terry Walters and Amy Walters |
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